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ENDTOPII said:
> VLC: Just download an installer from the official site and it just works
> MPV: Must go to third-party compiled installers or do it yourself (99.9999% of the internet doesn't know how to do that)

Stop recommending MPV, just because they made one based tweet doesn't mean it's worth shilling their /g/ programmer LARP. Until it's a one click install from their official site, MPV can fuck off!
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then don't use mpv itself use a front end like smplayer it uses mplayer and mpv you can choose.
 
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Very niche software but Kstars is an awesome project. If you're into astronomy or have an astrophotography rig it'll do it all. Impressive for FOSS.
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I'll bite. I remember having used another such program, Celestia, in the past and having a bit of fun with it. How does it compare to other, similar offerings?
 
I have officially given up on Invidious and have replaced it with FreeTube, another YouTube front-end. It allows you to assign a proxy (even Tor), faster, the ability to download, subscribe, higher quality video settings, in addition to the benefit of cutting out the trannies who actually host most Invidious instances.
Website: https://freetubeapp.io/
Flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/io.freetubeapp.FreeTube
 
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El Kay Why said:
I have officially given up on Invidious and have replaced it with FreeTube, another YouTube front-end. It allows you to assign a proxy (even Tor), faster, the ability to download, subscribe, higher quality video settings, in addition to the benefit of cutting out the trannies who actually host most Invidious instances.
Website: https://freetubeapp.io/
Flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/io.freetubeapp.FreeTube
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I'm a big fan of Piped but I think it's only worth it if you self host your own instance. YouTube goes hard on the rate limiting these days so public instances get felted easily.
 
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HD Tune. It’s not free, but it’s diagnosed many a bad hard drive in my life. My favourite thing about it is that it can do several low level formats back to back, up to 35 times. This is good for data destruction, but *I* use it to exercise pending sectors on hard drives.

A pending sector is set when a hard drive’s controller, for some reason, cannot successfully read that sector. Often this is indicative of a failing hard drive. If a pending sector can not be written to, then it is reallocated to a spare sector. However, if the controller can write to that sector, its pending flag is removed.

You want to format the drive several times to make sure that sector either gets removed or reallocated.

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Kennedy Space Center said:
If you are using Windows - Ditto is a really cool and handy tool to mange your clipboard.
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I’d give you a semper fi for that but I can’t. Please enjoy my lower quality substitute.

I’m definitely grabbing this particular piece of software.
 
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It's not software, but I don't think we have a product endorsement thread and I don't want to create a new thread for this. Buy a portable jump pack to put in the trunk of your car. $100-$150, and you'll never get stuck with a dead battery again. No more waiting for roadside assistance or for someone willing to give you a jump, and a lot of them can also inflate your tires. Just charge it up once per month to make sure it's topped up.

There are also much smaller ones without as much charge or the ability to inflate your tires that you can get for about $50.
 
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Banana Hammock said:
It's not software, but I don't think we have a product endorsement thread and I don't want to create a new thread for this. Buy a portable jump pack to put in the trunk of your car. $100-$150, and you'll never get stuck with a dead battery again. No more waiting for roadside assistance or for someone willing to give you a jump, and a lot of them can also inflate your tires. Just charge it up once per month to make sure it's topped up.

There are also much smaller ones without as much charge or the ability to inflate your tires that you can get for about $50.
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This has saved my ass more times than I'd like.
 
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Jotch said:
Linux + Tor Daemon + Firefox + Foxyproxy gang gang.

I've become very comfortable with the tor site, am happy that the clearnet mirror is drawing fire allowing for higher sneed yeilds in the onion farms.
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FoxyProxy is pretty sick. I don't feel that I need to use Tor for human-run websites like Kiwi Farms, but it's nice to be able to use Tor specifically for content served from sites like Facebook and Google Mail/Youtube that are major threats to privacy. It would be nice if it was possible to do this for like, every single website that's on adblock/tracker lists.
 
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Tor specifically for content served from sites like Facebook and Google Mail/Youtube
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Does that work well these days? I was thinking about setting my server up as a Tor proxy I route all my "general browsing" internet traffic though (not paypal/online shopping etc. - these sites freak out which I am very aware of) since my commercial VPN with it's serverfarm IP addresses is basically blocked everywhere. I'd switch to Tor for browsing if it works better but last time I tried which granted, was a while ago it worked really poorly.
 
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AmpleApricots said:
Does that work well these days? I was thinking about setting my server up as a Tor proxy I route all my "general browsing" internet traffic though (not paypal/online shopping etc. - these sites freak out which I am very aware of) since my commercial VPN with it's serverfarm IP addresses is basically blocked everywhere. I'd switch to Tor for browsing if it works better but last time I tried which granted, was a while ago it worked really poorly.
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I think Tor is probably comparable with most commercial VPNs as far as risk of hitting unneccessary captchas etc on Google and Facebook while logged in goes. From what I've seen, sites that aren't massive players like that are probably even worse with Tor vs. most commercial VPNs. I doubt I'm likely to be under any particularly targeted official surveillance, but I like the idea of messing around the FAAGs as much as possible.
 
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What is a good tool for archiving a Discord server? Please bear in mind that I am autistic, retarded, and gay.
 
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